“Well of course they [the nearby civilians] all denied knowing anything about it. The town itself is about roughly a little less than two miles...from the camp, down at the bottom of a hill. What they in effect were saying was that up at the top of the hill...was just a training area for German troops. They admitted no knowledge whatsoever of the concentration camp. They basically lied to us...The people could not help but know that the camp was there.”

Holocaust Testimony (HVT 1219)
Fortunoff Video Archive
for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale University Library

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